The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), has scholarships available. The goal of ASHRAE is to advance technology to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.

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Coal-fired power plants are a major source of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. But they continue to be built because coal remains an abundant and cheap fuel source. Still, a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that carbon dioxide emissions could be drastically cut, even with increased coal burning. The trick: Future power plants would have to capture the carbon and then sequester, or bury, it underground.

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In summer 2007, four civil engineering students from the University of Dayton visited the tiny village of Barombi in Cameroon. They were just tourists for the day, on a break from service work in the nearby city of Kumba. But that all changed when the chief there told them that villagers were becoming ill and dying because the lake they depended on for drinking water was contaminated.

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From global warming to water shortages, the Earth’s ecosystem is in crisis. Environmental engineers develop water distribution systems, sewage treatment plants, recycling methods, and other pollution prevention and control methods to solve current problems and prevent new ones.

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Engineers find elegant design solutions in the natural world.

In the not-so-distant past, engineering and biology were two distinct fields of study that rarely had much to do with each other. No more. Nature, once strictly the realm of biologists, is increasingly being scrutinized by engineers, who appreciate that it can offer sustainable, energy-efficient solutions to vexing human problems.

Biomimicry is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field of industrial design based on several billion years’ worth of research and development —  courtesy of evolution. Here’s a small sample of the many engineering innovations inspired by the natural world.

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